My first RPG was the original Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System in 1988. I have some fond memories of this game.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Ultima and Ultima II on the Apple IIc. after that is was a number of games too many to mention. Lots of P&P games and some board games. What got me into Online MMO's was Ultima tho. Ultima Online.
Say hello, To the things you've left behind. They are more a part of your life now that you can't touch them.
For me it started with the Final Fantasy games for NES and then SNES. I then played all of the other Square RPGs available on those systems as well as some that were from other companies.
Then I played old school PC RPGs like Diablo, Baldur's Gate, etc... Eventually leading to Ultima Online which really flung me into the MMORPG genre.
Dragon Warrior for the NES. I recently bought a YOBO gaming system which allows me to play NES, SNES and Genesis games through one console. I broke out Dragon Warrior as well as Gold Cartridge Zelda and the NES version of Shadowrun. Oh, and Tecmo Bowl too. Good times, good times.
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
DnD pen and paper, Zork (all it's incarnations), Wizardry, then a bit later in life Darklands...(still have a copy on an old DOS machine somewhere). It was Yserbius in the online family theme park The Imagination Network that hooked me into MMOs. I spent....mucho mucho dollars leveling in off hours. Sigh. All that time playing dial-up games. Oh well....
34, soon to be 35...I owned a preowned Aquarius pc, the one with the cool rubber keys and goofy controller, and D&D released a game for the system that I played on a black and white tv. It was as close to the pen n paper D&D I played as a kid as I could come, until...
Dragon Warrior, NES. Hours and hours of playing that game. Then came Final Fantasy, NES. Same thing.
35 here, my earliest gaming experiences was on my trs 80 with the cassette games but my first true rpg's i remember is Ultima on c64 bards tale and dragon warrior on the nes. I have played almost every rpg since.
The one i remember most of all thought is the first first person 3d fluid motion i played on the PS1 Kings Field one and two. Every couple years i go back and play a few of the old nes and ps rpgs and always those 2. they were hard, one misstep and you were instantly dead back to your last save. All of us masochists love the difficulty of the old rpg's =P
It was a text parser game that I forgot the name of decades ago. While at the computer center in the university I was going to in the late '70s, I overheard someone giving the name and password to a computer game on the university's IBM 1020 mainframe computer. A couple of days later I found the 'terminal' room and logged in. Those terminals were 136 column paper terminals. I wasted reams and reams of paper on that game.
I've been playing ever since. People of my generation created these games. I play them.
"I used to think the worst thing in life was to be all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone." Robin Williams
I'm 33. First gaming machine (Computer) was a Vic 20 with a tape drive; my dad bought it for me when I was 5. My first RPG was Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception from 1988 on the Commodore 64. It was my gateway RPG, it led me to play the board game Battletech as well as the table top RPG of MechWarrior at which point I was doomed to Nerddom.
It's all my dad's fault as he was an engineer and felt that the sooner I was able to use a computer, the better. He just never realized where that was going to take me.
First Computer RPG: Zork (on the Commodore PET... with a whole 32k ram!.. ah those were the days...)
First Graphical RPG: The Pawn (Commodore 64)
Early RPG with biggest impact : Bard's Tale (Commodore 64)
The Bard's Tale series is far and away the most fondly remembered RPG i ever played on a computer. Untill the dawn of MMORPG's, I'm not sure I ever actually played an RPG i liked better. Also turned out to be my first Multiplayer computer RPG as I would copy my characters to disk and bring them over to a friends house and play through Part II with half a party of his charcters and half a party of mine because I hadn't bought a copy yet. Great stuff!
Honorable mention goes to the AD&D game for Intellivision, which I wouldn't really qualify as an RPG but I sorta treated it like one.
Ohhh, long way back - Mechwarrior I on a 286. Then Wing Commander I and II, then Neverwinter Nights on AOL (at 2 bucks an hour over 9600 baud modem rofl).
Awesome!!! That was one of my first too...along with Zelda 2 on the NES and Ys Book I & II on the Turbo Grafx CD. I never realized that Hudson/Falcom did Faxanadu. Damn...they rule (made Ys as well).
Only thing that annoyed me in that game was the people blinking along with the text (any type writer sounds) in the dialog window.
There are 3 types of people in the world. 1.) Those who make things happen 2.) Those who watch things happen 3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
Does anyone else remember? : legacy of the ancients, C64?
RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid.
Currently Playing EVE, ESO
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
34 years old here. First RPG I played that I can remember really getting into for the PC was D&D: Eye of the Beholder I played on the Amiga 1000. Came out in 1990, it would probably make a great browser game or Facebok application nowadays hehe. Final Fantasy was the first console RPG I got a taste for, but I gave up on the Final Fantasy games after #8.
It was PnP D&D that started my interest in RPGs but as far as computer games go, my first RPG was Wizardry on the Apple II in the early 80s I guess. Weird thing is I just started playing it again a couple of weeks ago using a DOS emulator. It seems horribly clunky now of course but the game is so brutally difficult i'm determined to finish it somehow before deleting it from my hard drive forever.
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My first RPG was the original Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System in 1988. I have some fond memories of this game.
"Mr. Rothstein, your people never will understand... the way it works out here. You're all just our guests. But you act like you're at home. Let me tell you something, partner. You ain't home. But that's where we're gonna send you if it harelips the governor." - Pat Webb
Istar
Same two games, only on my IBM XT, in glorious CGA 4 color graphics. Remember using graph paper?
Edit: I almost forgot, Dungeons of Daggorath on my Color Computer 16.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Ultima and Ultima II on the Apple IIc. after that is was a number of games too many to mention. Lots of P&P games and some board games. What got me into Online MMO's was Ultima tho. Ultima Online.
Say hello, To the things you've left behind. They are more a part of your life now that you can't touch them.
For me it started with the Final Fantasy games for NES and then SNES. I then played all of the other Square RPGs available on those systems as well as some that were from other companies.
Then I played old school PC RPGs like Diablo, Baldur's Gate, etc... Eventually leading to Ultima Online which really flung me into the MMORPG genre.
AD&D and Sword and the Sepents on my friends Intellivision were probably my introduction to console RPG's.
But it was Phantasy Star on the Sega Master System that really hooked me.
littlemonkey
Dragon Warrior for the NES. I recently bought a YOBO gaming system which allows me to play NES, SNES and Genesis games through one console. I broke out Dragon Warrior as well as Gold Cartridge Zelda and the NES version of Shadowrun. Oh, and Tecmo Bowl too. Good times, good times.
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
Chavez y Chavez
DnD pen and paper, Zork (all it's incarnations), Wizardry, then a bit later in life Darklands...(still have a copy on an old DOS machine somewhere). It was Yserbius in the online family theme park The Imagination Network that hooked me into MMOs. I spent....mucho mucho dollars leveling in off hours. Sigh. All that time playing dial-up games. Oh well....
34, soon to be 35...I owned a preowned Aquarius pc, the one with the cool rubber keys and goofy controller, and D&D released a game for the system that I played on a black and white tv. It was as close to the pen n paper D&D I played as a kid as I could come, until...
Dragon Warrior, NES. Hours and hours of playing that game. Then came Final Fantasy, NES. Same thing.
Ultima on the Apple 2c got me hooked something fierce.
Ultima 3 Commodore
35 here, my earliest gaming experiences was on my trs 80 with the cassette games but my first true rpg's i remember is Ultima on c64 bards tale and dragon warrior on the nes. I have played almost every rpg since.
The one i remember most of all thought is the first first person 3d fluid motion i played on the PS1 Kings Field one and two. Every couple years i go back and play a few of the old nes and ps rpgs and always those 2. they were hard, one misstep and you were instantly dead back to your last save. All of us masochists love the difficulty of the old rpg's =P
It was a text parser game that I forgot the name of decades ago. While at the computer center in the university I was going to in the late '70s, I overheard someone giving the name and password to a computer game on the university's IBM 1020 mainframe computer. A couple of days later I found the 'terminal' room and logged in. Those terminals were 136 column paper terminals. I wasted reams and reams of paper on that game.
I've been playing ever since. People of my generation created these games. I play them.
For me really it was P&P D&D but I would have to say for computers its started with Zork and the original Ultima and Wizardry series.
I'm 33. First gaming machine (Computer) was a Vic 20 with a tape drive; my dad bought it for me when I was 5. My first RPG was Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception from 1988 on the Commodore 64. It was my gateway RPG, it led me to play the board game Battletech as well as the table top RPG of MechWarrior at which point I was doomed to Nerddom.
It's all my dad's fault as he was an engineer and felt that the sooner I was able to use a computer, the better. He just never realized where that was going to take me.
Age: 39
First RPG: Pen & Paper D&D at the age of 9
First Computer RPG: Zork (on the Commodore PET... with a whole 32k ram!.. ah those were the days...)
First Graphical RPG: The Pawn (Commodore 64)
Early RPG with biggest impact : Bard's Tale (Commodore 64)
The Bard's Tale series is far and away the most fondly remembered RPG i ever played on a computer. Untill the dawn of MMORPG's, I'm not sure I ever actually played an RPG i liked better. Also turned out to be my first Multiplayer computer RPG as I would copy my characters to disk and bring them over to a friends house and play through Part II with half a party of his charcters and half a party of mine because I hadn't bought a copy yet. Great stuff!
Honorable mention goes to the AD&D game for Intellivision, which I wouldn't really qualify as an RPG but I sorta treated it like one.
Ohhh, long way back - Mechwarrior I on a 286. Then Wing Commander I and II, then Neverwinter Nights on AOL (at 2 bucks an hour over 9600 baud modem rofl).
- D & D (table top)
- RIFTS (table top)
- Chrono Trigger - Super NES
- Gargoyles Quest (Original Gameboy) Still have it and play it!
Awesome!!! That was one of my first too...along with Zelda 2 on the NES and Ys Book I & II on the Turbo Grafx CD. I never realized that Hudson/Falcom did Faxanadu. Damn...they rule (made Ys as well).
That game was great.
Only thing that annoyed me in that game was the people blinking along with the text (any type writer sounds) in the dialog window.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
age: 32
First RPG-like game: Text based games on my Commodore 64 and vic-20
First true RPG: FF1 on NES
Favourite RPG: (tie) Fallout 3, FF7 HONOURABLE MENTION: Earthbound
First MMO: EQ1
Does anyone else remember? : legacy of the ancients, C64?
RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid.
Currently Playing EVE, ESO
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.
Dwight D Eisenhower
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
Henry Rollins
34 years old here. First RPG I played that I can remember really getting into for the PC was D&D: Eye of the Beholder I played on the Amiga 1000. Came out in 1990, it would probably make a great browser game or Facebok application nowadays hehe. Final Fantasy was the first console RPG I got a taste for, but I gave up on the Final Fantasy games after #8.
Dungeons of Daggorath
I was also big on text advnetures like Zork.
It was PnP D&D that started my interest in RPGs but as far as computer games go, my first RPG was Wizardry on the Apple II in the early 80s I guess. Weird thing is I just started playing it again a couple of weeks ago using a DOS emulator. It seems horribly clunky now of course but the game is so brutally difficult i'm determined to finish it somehow before deleting it from my hard drive forever.
Larn, Might and Magic and Bard's Tale.